Gatwick Airport Northern Runway Project - Authorisation Of Compulsory Acquisition

NOTICE OF COMPULSORY ACQUISITION UNDER SECTION 134(7) OF THE PLANNING ACT 2008
THE GATWICK AIRPORT (NORTHERN RUNWAY PROJECT) DEVELOPMENT CONSENT ORDER 2025
NOTICE OF AUTHORISATION OF COMPULSORY ACQUISITION

The above Order, made under the Planning Act 2008 by the Secretary of State for Transport and published on 21 September 2025, includes provision authorising the compulsory acquisition of land, existing rights over land and of rights over land by creating new rights over it as described in Schedule 1 below and more particularly described in the book of reference accompanying the Order.
The Order includes provision authorising the acquisition for the purpose of constructing, operating and maintaining the Gatwick Airport Northern Runway Project, comprising the repositioning of the existing northern runway to enable dual runway operations; repositioning of existing taxiways and stands and construction of additional taxiways and stands including a new pier; reconfiguration of existing airfield facilities; extensions and improvements to the existing North and South Terminals; provision of additional hotels, office space and car parking; improvements to the surface access to the airport including highway works; reconfiguration of utility service assets including water treatment, drainage and power; delivering landscape and ecological mitigation and open space land; and ancillary or related development. A copy of the Order as made by the Secretary of State for Transport, the statement of reasons for seeking compulsory acquisition powers, the Secretary of State's decision letter, the Examining Authority's report of its recommendations, the book of reference and other relevant documents are available to view online free of charge via the Planning Inspectorate's website within the 'Documents' tab at:

https://national-infrastructure-consenting.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/projects/TR020005

A hard copy of the Order is available for inspection free of charge as set out below: Location: 5th Floor, Destinations Place, Gatwick Airport, Gatwick, West Sussex, RH6 0NP. Opening Hours (excluding public holidays): 09:00 - 15:30 Monday to Friday. If you have any enquiries about this notice, where to find the relevant information or on the documentation itself, you may contact Gatwick Airport Limited by email at

community@gatwickairport.com

or by phone on 01293 505265 (09:00 – 15:30 Monday to Friday). A person aggrieved by the Order may challenge the Order only in accordance with section 118 of the Planning Act 2008, which stipulates that any proceedings must be brought by filing a claim form for judicial review before the end of the period of 6 weeks beginning with the day after the day on which the Order was published (or, if later, the day on which the statement of reasons for making the Order was published). Once the provision in the Order authorising compulsory acquisition comes into force, the undertaker (defined in Article 2(1) of the Order as Gatwick Airport Limited or any person who has the benefit of the Order in accordance with Articles 7 (benefit of Order) and 8 (consent to transfer benefit of Order)) may acquire the land (including any existing rights and / or new rights) as described in Schedule 1 below by executing a general vesting declaration under section 4 of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981. A statement on the effect of Parts 2 and 3 of that Act is set out in Schedule 2 below. Any person who would be entitled to claim compensation if a general vesting declaration were executed is invited to give information about the person's name, address and interest in land, using a prescribed form, to Gatwick Airport Limited using the following address: D M Land Referencing, PO Box 494, Bicester, OX26 9PP or email address: gatwicknrp

@dalcourmaclaren.com.

The prescribed form is set out in Schedule 3 below.
SCHEDULE 1
DESCRIPTION OF THE LAND, EXISTING RIGHTS AND THE NEW RIGHTS
The Order land (as defined in Article 2(1) of the Order) is shown on the land plans (as defined in Article 2(1) of the Order) and described in the book of reference (as defined in Article 2(1) of the Order). The Order land is shown on the land plans shaded pink (power to compulsorily acquire all freehold and leasehold interests), shaded blue (power to compulsorily acquire rights by the creation of new rights or the imposition of restrictive covenants) and shaded green (power to compulsorily acquire rights by the creation of new rights or the imposition of restrictive covenants over presumed highway).
The Order authorises the construction, operation and maintenance of various on-airfield works, including the repositioning of the existing northern runway to enable dual runway operations; the repositioning of existing taxiways and stands and construction of additional taxiways and stands including a new pier; and reconfiguration of existing airfield facilities. It also authorises extensions and improvements to the existing North and South Terminals and provision of additional hotels, office space and car parking at the airport. It further authorises improvements to the surface access to the airport including highway works associated with the North Terminal Junction, South Terminal Junction and Longbridge Roundabout Junction as well as reconfiguration of utility service assets including water treatment, drainage and power. The Order authorises the delivery of landscape and ecological mitigation around the airport and open space land to the north of Longbridge Roundabout and on Car Park B.
Under the powers granted in the Order, the undertaker (defined in Article 2(1) of the Order as Gatwick Airport Limited or any person who has the benefit of the Order in accordance with Articles 7 (benefit of Order) and 8 (consent to transfer benefit of Order)) may acquire compulsorily (in summary and subject to the details set out in the Order):
(a) pursuant to Article 27 (compulsory acquisition of land) of the Order, so much of the Order land (as defined in Article 2(1) of the Order) as is required for the construction, operation or maintenance of the authorised development (as defined in Article 2(1) of the Order) or to facilitate it, or is incidental to it, or is required as replacement land, and use any land so acquired for the purposes authorised by the Order or for any other purposes in connection with or ancillary to the undertaking;
(b) pursuant to Article 28 (compulsory acquisition of rights and imposition of restrictive covenants) of the Order, such rights over the Order land or impose restrictive covenants affecting that land, as may be required for any purpose for which that land may be acquired under Article 27 (compulsory acquisition of land) of the Order, by creating them as well as by acquiring rights already in existence;
(c) pursuant to Article 34 (acquisition of subsoil or airspace only) of the Order, so much of, or such rights in, the subsoil of or the airspace over the land referred to in paragraph (1) of Article 27 (compulsory acquisition of land) of the Order as may be required for any purpose for which that land may be acquired under that provision instead of acquiring the whole of the land; and
(d) pursuant to Article 40 (statutory undertakers) of the Order, the land belonging to statutory undertakers within the Order land (as defined in Article 2(1) of the Order) and described in the book of reference (as defined in Article 2(1) of the Order) and may also acquire existing rights, create and acquire new rights and impose restrictive covenants over the land belonging to statutory undertakers within the Order land and described in the book of reference and extinguish or suspend the rights of, remove, alter, renew, relocate or reposition the apparatus belonging to statutory undertakers over or within the Order land, and may also construct the authorised development in such a way as to cross underneath or over apparatus belonging to statutory undertakers and other like bodies within the Order land, construct over existing apparatus belonging to statutory undertakers any necessary track or roadway (whether temporary or permanent) together with the right to maintain or remove the same, and install such service media under or over the existing apparatus needed in connection with the authorised development, and the right to remove or reposition any apparatus belonging to statutory undertakers which is laid beneath any of the streets within the Order land. Under the powers granted in the Order, the undertaker (defined in Article 2(1) of the Order as Gatwick Airport Limited or any person who has the benefit of the Order in accordance with Articles 7 (benefit of Order) and 8 (consent to transfer benefit of Order)) may also (in summary and subject to the details set out in the Order):
(a) pursuant to Article 31 (private rights of way) of the Order, extinguish all private rights of way over land subject to compulsory acquisition from the date of acquisition of the land or on the date of entry, whichever is earlier;
(b) pursuant to Article 35 (rights under or over streets) of the Order, enter on and appropriate so much of the subsoil of, or airspace over, any street within the Order limits as may be required for the purposes of the authorised development and use the subsoil or airspace for those purposes or any other purpose ancillary to the authorised development;
(c) pursuant to Article 36 (temporary use of land for carrying out the authorised development) of the Order, enter on and take temporary possession of the Order land (as defined in Article 2(1) of the Order), remove any buildings, apparatus, fences, landscaping, debris, electric line, electrical plant, structures and vegetation from that land, use any private road within the Order land for the passage of persons or vehicles (with or without materials, plant and machinery), construct temporary or permanent works (including the provision of means of access) or buildings on that land, and construct any works on that land as are mentioned in Schedule 1 (authorised development) of the Order, or any other mitigation works; and
(d) pursuant to Article 38 (temporary use of land for maintaining authorised development) of the Order, at any time during the maintenance period relating to any part of the authorised development enter on and take temporary possession of any land within the Order land if such possession is reasonably required for the purpose of maintaining the authorised development, enter onto any Order land for the purpose of gaining access as is reasonably required for the purpose of maintaining the authorised development, and construct such temporary works (including the provision of means of access) and buildings on the land within the Order land as may be reasonably necessary for that purpose.
Land in respect of which only rights etc may be acquired is listed in Schedule 7 (land in which only new rights etc. may be acquired) of the Order, which specifies the purposes for which the new rights may be acquired over that land. Further details are provided in the land plans and book of reference.
SCHEDULE 2
STATEMENT OF EFFECT OF PARTS 2 AND 3 OF THE COMPULSORY PURCHASE (VESTING DECLARATIONS) ACT 1981
Power to execute a general vesting declaration
1. Once the provision in the Gatwick Airport (Northern Runway Project) Development Consent Order 2025 which authorises compulsory acquisition comes into force, the undertaker (defined in Article 2(1) of the Order as Gatwick Airport Limited or any person who has the benefit of the Order in accordance with Articles 7 (benefit of Order) and 8 (consent to transfer benefit of Order)) may acquire any of the land (including any existing rights and / or new rights) described in Schedule 1 above by executing a general vesting declaration under section 4 of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981 ("the Act”). This has the effect, subject to paragraphs 3 and 5 below, of vesting the land in the undertaker at the end of the period mentioned in paragraph 2 below.
Notices concerning general vesting declaration
2. As soon as may be after the undertaker executes a general vesting declaration, they must serve notice of it on every occupier of any of the land specified in the declaration (except land where there is one of the tenancies described in paragraph 4) and on every person who gives them information relating to the land in pursuance of the invitation contained in the notice of the authorisation of the compulsory acquisition. When the service of notices of the general vesting declaration is completed, a period specified in the declaration, of not less than three months, will begin to run. On the first day after the end of this period the land described in the declaration will, subject to what is said in paragraphs 3 and 5, vest in the undertaker together with the right to enter on the land and take possession of it. Every person on whom the undertaker could have served a notice to treat in respect of his interest in the land (other than a tenant under one of the tenancies described in paragraph 4) will be entitled to claim compensation for the acquisition of his interest in the land, with interest on the compensation from the vesting date.
3. The "vesting date" for any land specified in a declaration will be the first day after the end of the period mentioned in paragraph 2 above unless a counter-notice is served under Schedule A1 to the Act within that period. In such circumstances, the vesting date for the land which is the subject of the counter-notice will be determined in accordance with Schedule A1.
Modifications with respect to certain tenancies
4. In the case of certain tenancies, the position stated above is subject to modifications. The modifications apply where the tenancy is either a "minor tenancy", i.e. a tenancy for a year or a yearly tenancy or a lesser interest, or "a long tenancy which is about to expire". The latter expression means a tenancy granted for an interest greater than a minor tenancy but having on the vesting date a period still to run which is not more than the period specified in the declaration for this purpose (which must be more than a year). In calculating how long a tenancy has still to run, where any option to renew or to terminate it is available to either party, it shall be assumed that the landlord will take every opportunity open to him to terminate the tenancy while the tenant will use every opportunity to retain or renew his interest.
5. The modifications are that the undertaker may not exercise the right of entry referred to in paragraph 2 in respect of land subject to a tenancy described in paragraph 4 unless they first serve notice to treat in respect of the tenancy and then serve every occupier of the land with a notice of their intention to enter and take possession after the period (not less than three months from the service of the notice) specified in the notice. The right of entry will be exercisable at the end of that period. The vesting of the land will be subject to the tenancy until the end of that period or until the tenancy comes to an end, whichever happens first.
SCHEDULE 3
FORM FOR GIVING INFORMATION
Gatwick Airport (Northern Runway Project) Development Consent Order 2025
To: The undertaker, being Gatwick Airport Limited or any person who has the benefit of the Order in accordance with Articles 7 (benefit of Order) and 8 (consent to transfer benefit of Order))
[I] [We] being [a person] [persons] who, if a general vesting declaration were executed under section 4 of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981 in respect of all the land comprised in the order cited above in respect of which notice to treat has not been given, would be entitled to claim compensation in respect of [all] [part of] that land, give you the following information, pursuant to section 134(7)(cza) of the Planning Act 2008.
(A) Name and address of informant(s) (see explanatory note (i) below) …………………………………………………………………………………………………..……………………………………………………………………..
(B) Land in which an interest is held by informant(s) (see explanatory note (ii) below)..................……………………………………….. …………………………………………………………………………………………………..
(C) Nature of interest (see explanatory note (iii) below) …………………………………………………………………………………………………...………………………………………………………………………………………..
Signed ………………………………………………………………………………………..........…[on behalf of] …………………………………………………….................................................................Date…………………………….
(i) In the case of a joint interest insert the names and addresses of all the informants.
(ii) The land should be described concisely.
(iii) If the interest is leasehold, the date of commencement and length of term should be given. If the land is subject to a mortgage or other incumbrance, details should be given, e.g. name of building society and roll number.
Please refer to Gatwick Airport Limited's privacy policy (

https://www.gatwickairport.com/privacy-policy.html

) for information on how Gatwick Airport Limited handles personal data. For and on behalf of the undertaker, being Gatwick Airport Limited or any person who has the benefit of the Order in accordance with Articles 7 (benefit of Order) and 8 (consent to transfer benefit of Order) Date _________________________